Florida Road Rager FA Almost FO

A Florida Mercedes driver almost found out on Tuesday.

The Port St. Lucie man is now facing a long list of charges, accused of threatening two people with a gun during a road rage incident.

Paul Slane, 63, faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of battery and one count of robbery with a firearm.

The victims, a married couple, told police that it started around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Southwest Heatherwood and Southwest California boulevards.

“Driver of a black Mercedes brake checked him, slammed on his brakes, and forced him to stop on the roadway,” said Leo Niemczyk, assistant police chief of Port St. Lucie.

The victims said they tried to go around the man, but he followed, continuing to harass them.

Police said they’re not sure why.

“We haven’t been able to lock that down, what exactly set him off,” Niemczyk said. “But who knows? It could have been a bad day. Maybe his goldfish died.”

The victims said the man even went so far as to follow them into their gated community and all the way to their house.

“At their home, the vehicle drove in front of them, slammed on the brakes again, forced the victim to stop, got out of his vehicle brandishing a firearm,” Niemczyk said.

That’s when the female victim in the passenger seat started recording on her phone.

Video released by Port St. Lucie police shows the man getting out of his car with the gun in his hand and approaching the victims’ truck, screaming profanities.

At one point, he reaches through the driver’s side window, hits the driver and tries to grab the phone out of the woman’s hands.

Niemczyk said it’s lucky nobody was hurt or killed, and not just because Slane had a gun.

The video shows the victim, who was driving, also had a gun in his lap.

“Should I shoot him?” he’s heard on the video asking his wife.

In the end, no shots were fired.

“This guy’s behavior is absolutely unacceptable,” Niemczyk said. “And he’s going to face the consequences.”

Slane is currently being held in the St. Lucie County jail without bond.

Cedar's Take:

Let me be very clear I won't ask my wife for permission to use my weapon. Unlike law enforcement I'm not going ask him to drop his weapon he's not going to get within ten feet of my black Tahoe. 

At this point right here he takes two in the chest. 

If he's lucky I don't put an extra round in his head.

How close was this crazy MoFo to having a change of venue? 

This close:

Anyone disagree?